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Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics...
There's an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.
I have this app. I work with a douche who wears these (despite then being banned), and this app didn't pick them up.
The app didn't detect the glasses that it was solely designed to detect??
Not in my case, no.
That must be a huge battery killer.
Nah, if you have Bluetooth on your phone is already doing it.
Basically this. The polling rate and client interrogation behavior can often be pushed to a far more aggressive stance than the usual defaults, but only in foreground mode on most mobile OSes.
I have it installed on mine & haven't noticed any difference.
I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that's supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It's not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure...
Countermeasures are good, despite them not being active...It's important to disrupt these terrible techs whenever possible!
They also make hats with IR LEDs that blind the cameras.
I thought IR only applies to night vision or low light modes, which not all cameras even use.
most surveillance cameras, including the ones being discussed in Meta glasses, just use regular optical sensors for well illuminated environments.
wouldn't IR blocking be completely useless when theres no Infrared LEDs projecting at you?